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Vasily Barkhatov directs Der Fliegende Holländer in Düsseldorf (****½) [live]

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It might be considered a miracle that The Flying Dutchman, a binary white cisgender man who imagines having to be redeemed by a woman, has not yet been cancelled by overzealous woke-activists. It does not mean that there is no dramaturgical problem in terms of content. The romantic notion…

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